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FREE STOPOVERS PERMITTED.
NOTE -
MAXIMUM TWO STOPOVERS PERMITTED IN THE CONTINENT
OF ORIGIN OF WHICH A MAXIMUM OF ONE STOPOVER IS
PERMITTED IN EACH DIRECTION IN THE COUNTRY OF
ORIGIN .
I booked a LONE4 for this morning via the AA ATW desk.
I wanted AKL-LAX- ... -NRT-SYD-MEL-AKL with stopovers at MEL and SYD.
I was informed that I could only have two stopovers in my continent of origin (which I knew) but this rule variance meant I could have one stopover "at the start of the trip" and the one stopover "at the end"; I could not have none "at the start" and two "at the end" or vv. (That was what how it was put to me).
It was no real issue in our case; I simply wanted to book most connections as stopovers
¶ so I simply booked AKL-LAX- ... -NRT-xSYD-MEL-AKL (i.e. a transit in SYD).
It is not an issue for such OZ flights if you start outside of SWP.
¶To avoid later fees and/or re-ticketing should I need to change routing resulting in a transfer (-x) becoming a stopover (-)